SOLAR WATCH * Huge X8.2 Flare Sept. 10, 2017! (Updated Daily)

Good Morning Z!

Good Morning All!!

What did the Boeing guy say last year?

Been pretty quiet the past few hours...

Hi NiNzrez, How are you today? I hope you are feeling better. Thanks so much for this site- it is where I come to have my morning coffee w/you all.

Very cool IWTB76.

I am picturing all you solar watchers poised at the ready,... to be the first to spot/post new sun activity.

Kinda like in the old westerns where at high noon,...

Last to draw fails to get the cookie.

:)
Z

Hey spider,...yer avatar is freaking me out.





Z

Should I get rid of it?
Today should be very hot day for sun watching-

Does anyone have any idea what the record is for M class and/or X class flares in one day?

No,...you should not get rid of it based upon any comment by me. I was j/k.

The thing is,...we are all here watching and waiting for something to happen.

Perhaps the sun will feel performance pressure and go limp today.


Z

Last Edited by zacksavage on 09/25/2011 11:22 AM

Hi Z Hi all. Great vid IWTB. HI Nin

No idea- I wouldn't know where to look either.Sunspot 1302 sure is hot- very prolonged spikes w/ the last few flares. I really hope a huge one (like Carrington's) doesn't fry our electronics. That would ruin the whole decade!

Hi- nice avatar!

I posted yesterday that the last time we had solar activity this active was July 2002.

I have no idea what the record is.

Good morning all. Looks like we have another M-flare right now.
[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]

What's going on? Something I should know about?

Looks like a small m-class double burst just now.

And rising.

Hi finley,...Nice to see you.

It was damn hot here in NM yesterday. I tried to look at the sun but it was such a bright white that I could not.

These flares, CME's, and such are so fascinating,.. and to think it is only in the last few years that we as average citizens can truly see what a super-charged, active power-house the glowing little ball in the sky really is.

Breath-taking really, and mind-expanding.


Z

Thanks

Or not. Still climbing.

that flare is still going! Cool! Thanks.Wow, the sun IS really cooking today! Was that 1302?

morning everyone
just in time for a flux rise
[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]

oh it's going straight up.

WATCHING...

End of flare...

Rising vertical-M 3.7.

Hi NiNzrez, hope your feeling ok. Nice to see ya here.

here u have a list of the most Powerful Solar Flares Ever Recorded:

[link to www.spaceweather.com]


On September 1 – 2, 1859, the largest recorded geomagnetic storm occurred. From August 28 until September 2, 1859, numerous sunspots and solar flares were observed on the Sun, the largest flare occurring on September 1. This is referred to as the 1859 solar superstorm or the Carrington Event. It can be assumed that a massive Coronal mass ejection (CME), associated with the flare, was launched from the Sun and reached the Earth within eighteen hours — a trip that normally takes three to four days. The horizontal intensity of geomagnetic field was reduced by 1600 nT as recorded by the Colaba observatory near Bombay, India. It is estimated that Dst would have been approximately -1750 nT.[7] Telegraph wires in both the United States and Europe experienced induced emf, in some cases even shocking telegraph operators and causing fires. Aurorae were seen as far south as Hawaii, Mexico, Cuba, and Italy — phenomena that are usually only seen near the poles. Ice cores show evidence that events of similar intensity recur at an average rate of approximately once per 500 years. Since 1859, less severe storms have occurred in 1921 and 1960, when widespread radio disruption was reported.[8]
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

M3.7 Well is a very very week.....
But there is a power to do more

Can anyone tell me what the biggest flare recorded was...and/or the biggest one guessing the actual rating?

Thx, Dan